Bellingrath Gardens

Alabama Course of Study for Music K-8

From ArtsEdge at the Kennedy Center

Five lessons inspired by

Light in the Storm (a Scholastic book)

One is "Civil War Music" where an example objective is "Students use the music of the Civil War to identify primary and secondary sources.....etc."

from the Library of Congress

Decades Mural Project - At the conclusion of this project, teams of students will have worked together to create 4' x 5' murals depicting major events of each decade of the twentieth century, beginning in the 1920s. At the conclusion of this project, each student will have developed an awareness of how visual arts can record history and represent cultural changes.

Landscape Painting: Artists Who Love the Land

Lesson Plans from Smithsonian

Civil War music and poetry, too.